Melissa McCready	07 Oct 2004 03:28:30 No Music on very old Lemmings game I have the very old pc Lemmings game-by Psygnosis 1991. It would always work before, it might be that I have windows XP now, I don't know. But there is no music. I have the music turned on and my volume control on and I've tried it in all kinds of compatability modes. Got any suggestions? Is there any web sites that have a driver I might need? Thanks

DragonsLover	07 Oct 2004 15:40:23 Re: No Music on very old Lemmings game Try using Dosbox. It's a program that emulates Dos and you can play old games correctly!

guest	29 Oct 2004 23:10:58 Re: No Music on very old Lemmings game I have the very old pc Lemmings game-by Psygnosis 1991. It would always work before, it might be that I have windows XP now, I don't know. But there is no music. I have the music turned on and my volume control on and I've tried it in all kinds of compatability modes. Got any suggestions? Is there any web sites that have a driver I might need? Thanks The problem is the game uses this rather dated FM music synthesis capability call "Adlib", which is likely no longer present on most new soundcards that are in used nowadays. In addition to DOSBox which I haven't tried, I've found that for XP, one solution is to try VDMSound, which provides support for Adlib for DOS programs via software emulation. See http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/. This has worked fairly well for me, especially with some tweaking.

Melissa McCready

07 Oct 2004 03:28:30

No Music on very old Lemmings game

I have the very old pc Lemmings game-by Psygnosis 1991. It would always work before, it might be that I have windows XP now, I don't know. But there is no music. I have the music turned on and my volume control on and I've tried it in all kinds of compatability modes. Got any suggestions? Is there any web sites that have a driver I might need?
Thanks

DragonsLover

07 Oct 2004 15:40:23

Re: No Music on very old Lemmings game

Try using Dosbox. It's a program that emulates Dos and you can play old games correctly!

guest

29 Oct 2004 23:10:58

Re: No Music on very old Lemmings game

The problem is the game uses this rather dated FM music synthesis capability call "Adlib", which is likely no longer present on most new soundcards that are in used nowadays.

In addition to DOSBox which I haven't tried, I've found that for XP, one solution is to try VDMSound, which provides support for Adlib for DOS programs via software emulation. See http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/. This has worked fairly well for me, especially with some tweaking.